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ἀπαίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαίτησις

Structure: ἀπαιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)paite/w

Sense

  1. a demanding back, formal demand

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἦν δὲ ἄρα Ταρκυνίῳ λόγοσ μὲν ἐλάχιστοσ τῶν χρημάτων, ἡ δ’ ἀπαίτησισ ἅμα πεῖρα τοῦ δήμου καὶ κατασκευὴ προδοσίασ, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἔπραττον οἱ πρέσβεισ ὑπομένοντεσ ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν χρημάτων προφάσει, τὰ μὲν ἀποδίδοσθαι, τὰ δὲ φυλάττειν, τὰ δ’ ἀποπέμπειν φάσκοντεσ, ἄχρι οὗ διέφθειραν οἴκουσ δύο τῶν καλῶν κάγαθῶν νομιζομένων, τὸν Ἀκυλλίων τρεῖσ ἔχοντα βουλευτάσ καὶ δύο τὸν Οὐιτελλίων. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 3 2:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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